skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One possibility is that it will never happen and we’re doomed. Unfortunately, a lot of people believe that.

It's unfortunate, but gosh, there are a whole lot of people on the planet. Something like 8 billion? I mean, that is a really high number for megafauna. People need to eat a lot, pets eat a lot, people want a warm house and hot water and so on. Setting aside cars and air travel and useless consumerism entirely, the energy it takes to provide all this food and heating is just a stupefyingly high amount. It is challenging to imagine people will set aside fossil fuels, raising crops with pesticides, and even procreation until absolutely forced to by external, nonpolitical, non-negotiable factors.

Getting wealthy people to spend a little more on things to which they might assign some luxury value / extra quality / better virtue is just spitting into the ocean. People-at-large simply do not live long enough and are not wired to do what's necessary to avoid eventual catastrophe. It'll be "let's try to be comfortable for a few more years while we figure this out," and then the next wave will try the same thing, and so on. Thanks to better living through chemistry, the species has gone from zero to looming disaster within the span of a few individual lifetimes.

I guess the good news is, in the long run, the Earth will be just fine.
They are not lies. Open source is not safer than closed source, unless you can verify with 100% certainty that the code you saw is the code that's running.

And that's impossible.

People who think open source is the solution to the voting challenge haven't given this problem much thought.
Mozilla announces Open Web Docs
> Dunno, wikipedia says the parameters are encrypted.

Laymen refer to any use of crypto as "encrypted".

> Anyway it would probably be good enough to just rip all the safety/firing electronics out, and replace it with your own best effort attempt at controlling the fireset capacitors charging and firing.

It's really not though, it's very very specific to the design of the warhead, and the electronics are embedded in it in a way that you can't just take it apart and put it back together. It's all nasty stuff like FOGBANK that if you could remanufacture, you wouldn't need to steal a nuke in the first place.

> What's there to vary anyway? Charge voltages, and discharge timing? Odds would be you could probably make it go boom in a more controlled manner than what happened in past accidents when the bombs exploded after hitting the ground.

Yep, nanosecond precision detonation on the shaped charges, and not just "all at the same time", but a very specific sequence that's dependent on the exact geometries, isotopes and these days, how they've decayed over decades. That's what Oak Ridge uses those fancy super computers for.

> The trouble would be getting past the tamper-proof barrier, because the modern bombs are probably made to self-destruct, from what I've read, so instead of a nice ready-made bomb internals waiting for a simpler arduino control circuit for a fireset, you'd be dealing with a hot mess, after trying to get in.

They are very much not designed to self destruct. Really the opposite. And yes, the threat model is that without the codes, you leave someone with components that they essentially have to remanufacture into a new bomb, which takes a well funded state actor. Or they just use the bits as a dirty bomb, which is why that gets so much play in the age of terrorist cells. But you don't get a full on usable nuke by just sticking a microcontroller on a stolen bomb.
Has GP indicated that they are on "the left"?

There is a growing idea especially among Americans that all "left" people are authoritarians. It's even funnier because the idea of "terrorists and cp distributors" using encryption to bypass regulation was floated in your Congress was almost verbatim the reasoning behind the EARN IT act, introduced in Senate by Lindsey Graham, whom I hope you don't think is on the left. It went on to receive bipartisan support as well.
> if you had somewhere else to go, you'd have to go, or else go to the shelter.

You left out the dominant reality - people who have no shelter option and nowhere else to go. Given that likely realty, what does one do?
Eventually Earth won’t support life at all anymore.
I'm not sure if you're under the impression that everywhere uses Dominion machines. I don't think that's the case. As I mentioned in another comment, it appears that in NY they're made by ES&S.
I used to use Tarsnap and am still stuck with it in several projects. I wish I weren't. Restoring backups takes ages. If you need to restore a production server in an emergency, and the whole server remains down for an hour because that's how long Tarsnap takes to restore some tens of Gigabytes, then you will very quickly look for alternatives. I raised this issue with Colin, Tarsnap's creator, multiple times. And the answer has always been "maybe some day". I now simply encrypt backups myself and store them in an S3 or Linode bucket. Much faster. For personal backups, I love restic syncing to Backblaze, where I back up 1.4 TB or so for $5 per month.
Thanks for posting this however it’s specific only to Google. I was looking for an industry wide survey like the one OP poster.

BTW, I see PM’s are on an average paid lesser than engineers at Google at all levels. Kindly correct me if I am wrong.
I think part of the rationale is that you have more space for your head to pick up speed before it smushes into what's ahead.

Back in cattle-class, there just isn't much space for that acceleration.
hi! Can you share how you do HA on postgres? Master/slave with monitoring and manual fall over or is that automatic? If so reliable? What tooling do you use? Thanks!
>You're comparing the extremest fringe of one protest to the nonviolent core of the other.

I am not; I'm comparing the movements that led to each situation. You want to compare extremists, but the extremists are not the point - they'll always be there. The intent of the movements that caused these actions to happen are what matters, and it's fairly clear which side each falls on.

Many of those instances of violence in the summer protests were reactionary and driven by police exercising unnecessary force, which has been documented in troves of video.

Those who participated in the DC incident on the 6th were driven by a stream of misinformation, which has _also_ been well documented at this point.

One wanted to believe in conspiracy theories and support a failure of a President, going so far as to listen to him to attempt to overthrow the government. The other one just wants equality.

>There was even an area that declared itself an Autonomous Zone.

Yes, I live down the street from it. Having experienced it and lived around it, I would not classify it as anything remotely close to what was seen on January 6th in DC.
You’d think that sending the world’s foremost security researchers malware would be a stupid idea, but they’re people too. They run Windows and Chrome just like everyone else, and (for the most part) nobody can really live with “I’m going to be targeted by a nation state” as their threat model, not even those who are aware of what the capabilities of an advanced zero day are. It’s kind of depressing if you think about it: nobody has really solved “what do I do if I have a government against me” yet…
Can you supply said statistic?
What are moderated e2ee comms?

How do you moderate content you are not expected to have any access to by design? And if the answer is to not have encryption, then when activists or groups that are being actively targeted and threatened need secure communications but find none, who is that on?
Thanks for this.

I know how to clear cache but may I ask what do you mean by storage?

I don’t know how to delete that.
I’m 50, so lived through it. But still wonder how companies operated, how did anything get done? Without computers and automation. Similar how did people learn things or know what is happing in world before the internet? I’m seconds away from any known fact.
How UVC Light Kills the Coronavirus?
Proposition 13 doesn't mean that cities have to get most of their revenue from businesses. They could trim the budget. I think that was the intent of Proposition 13.

Obviously, a direct prohibition on city budget increases would have worked better.

With residents not feeling the sting of increased costs, they will of course vote for local politicians who spend money without hesitation.
Exactly.

Everyone seems to agree that diversity is a good thing that leads to better overall outcomes, but then some of those people think that doesn't apply to diversity of ideas. Much of America's success can be attributed to being a melting pot of all types of people, and the mix of ideas they brought to the table. This recent trend of extreme censorship and "cancel culture" is bad for everyone long term, even if you agree with it in the short term.
Back in the 80's my brother and I would type in programs from a computer magazine called "Compute's Gazette" which was mainly for the Commodore 64. I remember typing in a variant of code that was similar to assembly (they coined it MLX), and included checksums at the end of each line to make sure we typed it in correctly. We spent many hours typing it in and playing these "lite" games.

https://kotaku.com/load-great-memories-8-1-5930961

https://archive.org/stream/1983-12-compute-magazine/Compute_...

I have to admit I really miss the days of being able to type in a game from a book (meh.... not really).
> I hear you, but it seems neat that our ticker tape yields a meat bag that likes to send rockets to other hunks of rock in a giant cold vacuum (for example).

I'd suggest as individuals of our species, we're not much more interesting than ribosomes -- one could say that ribosomes execute all the stuff in the salamander video (hey, they print the DNA into proteins).

Humans are maybe just biological machinery in the organism of culture, like ribosomes are the molecular machinery in the organism of biology. Culture does all those amazing things, and humans just skim along the unfathomably long and multi-dimensional ticker tape of language/culture :)

Just my 2c, of course, and the way I stay humble about humanity
GrapheneOS keeps the AOSP security model intact.
Zero-defects code – Microsoft Memo 1989 [pdf]
Someone moves to California and later becomes homeless - is evidence of what?
The latter, I'm sure. The historical event known as The Great Disappointment is a fascinating study in cognitive dissonance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Disappointment
I only have an anecdote, but when I was rowing competitively ergo competitions just started to become a thing. I know that some of them were won by nonrowers even against olympians. IIRC this was particularly true in the lightwave class, because they tend to be less genetic "freaks".
TIL, this is really good to know! Do you know offhand if this is a new feature, or have I just always been wrong
I've done a few postgres upgrades, the first using pg_upgrade, and the last doing effectively what you did (it was even 9.x -> 12).

My experience was that it needs to rewrite all the data for some tables/indexes under some circumstances, and the db won't be available while that happens. So, unless your db can be down for the time it takes to rewrite all that data it isn't really an option. After having done the upgrade through streaming logical replication I'm not sure I would try pg_upgrade again.

I did the pg_upgrade style update a long time ago, so most details are fuzzy, but I remember setting up a string of replicas something like:

primary -> [read_replica, backups_replica]

read_replica -> [upgrade_replica]

upgrade_replica -> [read_replica_upgraded, backups_replica_upgraded]

This allowed us to do multiple practice rounds without putting any unnecessary load on the primary. I think we needed to re-initiate replication off 'upgrade_replica' after the upgrade, but we did the live update during low-load so the extra read load wasn't an issue.
This really isn't comparing against Oracle or SQL Server, which are both legacy architectures. And you don't need Optane SSDs; people do better than that with cheap NVMe JBODs like you get on EC2. Also, something is only "I/O bound" if it is literally running at the theoretical limits of the storage hardware. And even that doesn't imply another database couldn't drive much more workload with the same theoretical bandwidth; many popular databases employ architectures that unnecessarily burn storage bandwidth.

It is pretty rare for these days for a modern database engine to be I/O bound in a storage sense, even with cheap solid-state storage. Certainly not for fast-twitch query workloads. For most data models and workloads, the bottleneck is either memory or network bandwidth if you are doing everything else right.

MySQL isn't typically held up as a paragon of query performance. It is solidly middle of the road. It is part of a generation of architectures that can't get anywhere close to current high-performance architectures. Every database architecture suffers this fate as they get older.
Honestly, I read the entire first season as a self aware meta-commentary on how the show was supposed to take Mad Men's place in the AMC lineup but was merely a shallow facsimile.

In addition, I see Mad Men's episode "The Monolith", about a computer being installed in the office, as a comment on the (at that point) upcoming Halt and Catch Fire series.
They killed a police officer. Brutally assaulted others. Stole computers after breaking in.
In case you didn't read my comment at all, "Rehabilitation, reeducation and basic assistance should always be the first step (Welfare)."

> The majority of homeless people (besides Roma) in most European countries are some mix of these.

The number is less than half for mental health patients and about half if you account for substance abuse. That number is lower in the US.

But regardless of the number, in your hurry to virtue signal someone over the internet, you completely missed the point. The argument was pretty simple, rehab and assistance is the first step, the rest was for people who actively refuse that.

For the mentally ill who refuse help, would you rather have them live a life of abuse and then die in misery on the streets or have them institutionalized? And for the drug abusers/alcoholics who refuse rehab, at what point does individual accountability start kicking in? Society is willing to help you, but if you still reject it, at some point you need to face the consequences.

I stand by my statement.
International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out (PoC||GTFO or PoC or GTFO)

https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/
I’m glad they all went south, I immigrated to Canada and it didn’t took me long to get a 6-figure job, its not Silicon Valley salary but I’m not paying 5k in rent either ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Resetting PRAM and SMC used to be the go-to solution for everything until the security chips appeared in Macs, because nobody could figure out how to do the equivalent on those.
For those, such as myself, who were not previously familiar with it:

"MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels for secure, high-performance network applications across a variety of cloud computing and mobile platforms. Code can be developed on a normal OS such as Linux or MacOS X, and then compiled into a fully-standalone, specialised unikernel that runs under a Xen or KVM hypervisor."

https://mirage.io

It seems an interesting idea.
You don’t see a difference between a local police station and your literal federal Capitol building filled with Senators?
How awesome is it that anyone who becomes homeless in Ft Worth gets forced out of the city?
> Criminals and bad actors are going to use crypto to exchange money regardless so what’s the point in not adding it to your platform?

because someone else doing something that you consider wrong doesn't give you a license to do the same thing. After all criminals also dodge taxes.
This is really interesting! Congrats on securing grant funding - I can't wait to see what MirageOS becomes.

(Speaking of grants, does anyone know any funding opportunities similar to NGI Pointer but in the US?)
I have watched all four seasons seven times.

This show is so good I don't recommend it to my friends because I'm not sure I could handle it if they didn't like it as much as myself.

If you haven't seen the show, watch season 1 episode 1. If you don't like it, this isn't your show. You don't have to invest 20 hours of your life 'to get to the good season'. It's all good right from the start.
As someone who ran a fair bit of FreeBSD and Interix/SFU/SUA, autotools was much more reliable than any other build system (though CMake came close). 99% of autotools projects would build fine. Approximately 0% of "simple Makefile"s would build at all.
I found it fairly believable, if not completely accurate, in both aspects. Most of the things in the show are things that actually happened in real life, just with the serial numbers filed off. For instance, Cardiff Electric is basically fake Compaq, Comet is basically fake Yahoo!, and Rover is like fake Google. There's even a reference to the Morris worm.

Sure, fake Google comes a little early in the timeline, and Mutiny doesn't exactly map to anything that's familiar to me, but it all feels like it could have happened. Verisimilitude is really what matters here, and they pull it all off to an absolute T.

On the technical aspects, I loved when Donna got to do her thing those couple of times and do data recovery on disks. I wish they had been able to give her a bigger role in the early part of the series, because her character really shines when allowed to.

And, we have to mention the set design. It's perfect, right down to the little touches, like Donna and Gordon's J.C. Penney TV, or the Yars' Revenge poster hanging up in the Mutiny frat house. Sometimes I literally watch the show just to look at the sets.
I like this one:

https://guitardashboard.com/
Why can't you reboot? NVMe storage is local, not ephemeral.
Quotes from the article leave that impression.

“The app saw a surge in usage during last year’s protests for racial justice, even adding a tool to automatically blur faces in photos to help activists more safely share images of the demonstrations. This kind of growth, one that supported progressive causes, was exciting to Signal’s roughly 30-member team.”

“But as the US presidential election grew closer, some Signal employees began raising concerns that group links could be abused. On September 29th, during a debate, President Trump had told the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.” During an all-hands meeting, an employee asked Marlinspike how the company would respond if a member of the Proud Boys or another extremist organization posted a Signal group chat link publicly in an effort to recruit members and coordinate violence.“

““The world needs products like Signal — but they also need Signal to be thoughtful,” said Gregg Bernstein, a former user researcher who left the organization this month over his concerns.”

————

You do know that there was also coordinated violence in the BLM protests.
I mean Moxie flat out said “nah that’s silly, we’re not doing that”, so I guess I’m not sure what the panic is about. An employee quitting over disagreement? Makes sense to me: the employee is entitled to their opinion! I’ve quit jobs over similar. I disagree with the employee, but this all seems like a storm in a teacup at this point?
This is exactly what I mean. The hand recount doesn't show the machines counted wrong, so conveniently you've got a workaround theory: "A specific number of newly created ballots could have been delivered during the after-hours(thanks to constitutionally illegal last-minute changes to voting laws in Democrat controlled states), and voter log-books could have been altered to match up with newly created ballots (hence the statistically improbable voter turnout in Democrat controlled areas)."

Sure, that version of events requires way more people in on the scam and would leave behind way more evidence, which hasn't turned up, but I can't prove it didn't happen so it's still totally worth investigating further.

GBI hand checked a random sample of 15K ballots in Cobb county for signature mismatch issues and found no fraudulent ballots, but that apparently doesn't count for anything, because they didn't look at Fulton county which is now where we're saying the fraud was. Cobb county still probably cheated the election since Biden won there, but they must've just forged the signatures too well.

And you like to pretend all you want is more election security and verifiability. Well gee, I'd like that too, as long as it doesn't compromise the secrecy of the ballot or the accessibility of voting to eligible voters. I think all software used in elections should be open source, for example. But there is a massive gulf between wanting better voting technology, and claiming that an election WAS stolen. The latter requires serious evidence. We do have some ways of verifying the election such as checking the paper trail, and when we've done that here, fraud hasn't shown up.

You'll always claim the investigation is insufficient unless it does find fraud, and completely discount the value of anything that confirms the count was correct. Yet you'll give credence to a "forensic report" from batshit crazy Russell Ramsland (mixed up MN and MI, claimed 781% turnout, claimed fractional vote counting based on rounded percentage numbers from NYT...)

Why is it so easy to believe that hundreds of poll workers, election officials, judges, governors, secretaries of state, etc. conspired to commit or cover up fraud, and are all lying about it - but hard to believe that Trump and his allies are the ones lying? Either way somebody is lying. And there are multiple occasions where I KNOW Giuliani said something that was complete BS -- such as that the number of mail-in ballots returned in PA exceeded the number requested. So it really wouldn't shock me at all to find out more, or all, of what he said was garbage.
I got over my aversion to house centipedes by thinking of them as "the cat of the insect world." Of course there are limits to allowable bedroom proximity.
Chamath for California Governor
Casino CEO and Actress Girlfriend Pose as Hotel Employees to Get Covid Vaccine
The real solution, which is perfectly practical and realistic, is to install umatrix and put it into strict mode, then whitelist domains that you trust and use often.

Give it a week and you’ll find yourself very rarely having to make policy changes. We spend most of our time on just a handful of sites.
If it’s E2E encrypted how do you propose finding out about it?

And frankly it’s a near certainty they already do. I know drug dealers do at least.
Grindr fined $10M for GDPR violations by Norwegian DPA [pdf]
I'm curious now what the volume per cylinder pump is. It normally takes several pumps before you start hearing the little spring clip noise thing communicate that the max vacuum has been achieved by the device. The more wine that has left the bottle the proportionally increased number of pumps to max out the device.
It would be nice if people could trust the outcome of the election. More specifically, it would be nice if establishment media and political figures didn't respond to this distrust with castigation.

Distrusting government would still make sense for me personally. It would be idyllic if people looked towards decentralization, localism and private solutions. Trust in their local institutions or community, while drastically reducing the purview of the federal government. That's just my personal preference. I'm not sure it is applicable in the widespread, pragmatic sense.

Some kind of political figure reaching across the aisle, recognizing the concerns of those who feel disenfranchised looks like the pragmatic solution that isn't happening. Instead I see actions and accusations that are predictably creating more division.